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Regency quiz - week 2

QuizRegency culture

Portrait of King George III (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

Did George III support the slave trade?

Why were the Romantics obsessed with Mount Vesuvius?

QuizIntroduction to the Regency

Author Jane Austen and the Prince Regent

Regency timelinethe key dates you need to know

King George III

The illness and decline of King George III

An ink drawing of a London 'rag fair' where old clothes and textiles were traded, c1800

Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain

A portrait and a cartoon of George III

The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved?

Strange and surprising pastimes of the Regency Ton

The Boston Tea Party

A Christmas feastThree historical festive recipes

Georgian Twelfth cake. (Photo by Eleanor Barnett)

A Christmas feastHow to make Georgian Twelfth cake

An illustration showing protesters dressed as Native Americans emptying the contents of crates of tea from an East India Company ship into Boston harbour

The brutality behind the Boston Tea Party

VideoAn introduction to George III

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party5. A complex legacy

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party4. The crackdown

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party3. The destruction of the tea

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party2. The Sons of Liberty

Boat with lots of people rebelling

Boston Tea Party1. Tea and taxes

A cartoon about the Tea Act shows a colonist reading the proclamation with concern

What was the 1773 Tea Act?

Video podcastGeorgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them

Georgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them

Deborah Meaden and Lady Hester Stanhope

My history heroDeborah Meaden chooses Lady Hester Stanhope

A portrait of George Robert Twelves Hewes

George Robert Twelves Hewes: the shoemaker who became a patriot

American suffragettes picket a building

The global legacy of the Boston Tea Party

This illustration shows “Boston boys throwing tea into the harbour” on 16 December 1773

Boston Tea Party: your guide to the protest that ignited a revolution

Video podcastThe dangerous road to the Bastille

The dangerous road to the Bastille

Napoleon’s mother, Letizia Bonaparte

Who was Letizia Bonaparte, the mother of Napoleon?

The marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte to Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise

Napoleon’s other wife: who was Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise?